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any thing but an outrage, 237 ; facts of the case, i 

 forbid that Congress should consent to wear the straight- 

 jncket of the Dred Scott decision, 283 ; the decision was 

 an outrage upon the civilization of the age, a libel on the 

 law, but not a disgrace to the Supreme Court, 28S ; bill 

 passed, 233 ; yeas and nays, 23S ; House refuse to con- 

 cur, 23S ; endeavor by one branch of Congress to estab- 

 lish negro political equality, 23S; Conference Committee 

 report to the House, 288; report rejected and further 

 conference asked, with instructions to Committee to agree 

 to no such proposition, 288 ; Senate decline to agree to 

 a Committee in the manner asked, 289 ; motion that tho 

 Senate insist on the amendment and agree to a confer- 

 ence, 2-39 ; not a negro in the territory, 239 ; one of the 

 most practical questions ever presented to the American 

 people, 239 ; the amendment will have no practical ef- 

 fect, 239 ; motion adopted, 239 ; Conference Committee 

 report in the Senate, 239 ; free white persons to be au- 

 thorized to vote, 289 ; hope the Senate will adhere to its 

 original position, 240 ; why detain the Senate fixing a 

 principle that can have no application ? 240 ; the princi- 

 ple is much more important than the bill, 240 ; report 

 of the Committee agreed to, 240; yeas and nays, 240; 

 report adopted in the House, 241. 



In the Senate, a bill to amend the charter of the city 

 of Washington considered, 241; moved to insert tha 

 vrord " white " before " male " relative to voters, 241 ; 

 another amendment moved that those who have paid a 

 tax and can read and write be electors, 241 ; would admit 

 negroes to the right of suffrage, 241 ; is it national to 

 make color a test? 241; the principle Is objectionable ; 

 strike the chord here and it will vibrate to the limits 

 of the republic, 241 ; opposed to granting the right of 

 suffrage at once, 242 ; new issues, 242 ; consequences, 

 242 ; bill suspended, but joint resolution subsequently 

 passed, 242 ; yeas and nays, 242. 



Lz the Senate, a resolution prohibiting the exclusion 

 of colored persons from enjoying railroad facilities in the 

 District, considered, 242 ; a recent outrage, 242 ; the out- 

 rage would be the other way, 242^ resolution agreed to, 

 243 ; yeas and nays, 243. 



In the Senate, a bill to incorporate the Metropolitan 

 Railroad Company considered, 243 ; amendment against 

 excluding colored persons from cars, 243 ; one-half the 

 business of the session devoted to debating the rights of 

 the two races, 243 ; impossible to achieve social and po- 

 litical equality, 243; proposal to send contrabands to 

 Massachusetts, how received, 244; those just escaped 

 from slavery not the people to exercise the elective fran- 

 chise, 244; no necessity for the amendment, 244; the 

 question as plain as one of the ten commandment?, 244 ; 

 carried, 245; yeas and nays, 245 ; do. in the House, 245 ; 

 bill to charter Georgetown Road, considered, 245; amend- 

 ment moved and passed, 245 ; failed in the House, 245. 



In the Senate, motion to amend the appropriation bill, 

 by providing a prohibition to the coastwise slave trade, 

 245 ; what is the result of the motion ? 246; our statute 

 book should not be defiled by any such license, 246 ; why 

 contest this matter ? it will be carried finally, 247; tho 

 North is now divided and the South a unit, why f 247 ; 

 opinion of the Supreme Court in the case of Groves r-. 

 Slough ter, 243; opinion of Judge McLean, -' -:- 

 subject within the power of tho States. 243 ; Brightley's 

 249 ; amendment agree-1 to, 249. 



In the Senate, a bill to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law 

 considered, 249; ought we to repeal the law of 17S3, 

 made by the framers of the Constitution ? 249 ; better 

 make a clean thing of it, 249 ; we should give to the 

 few Southern people left, who have the right to enforce 

 the Constitution agaii t us, their constitutional rights, 



249 ; carrying the matter too far to repeal tb* * 



; the COM at Prlgg M. the State of Pennsylva- 

 nia, 250 ; constitutionality of th act maintained, 230 ; 

 the limited effect of Inference, 251 ; doe* the Una "htW 

 to service " embrace slaves ? 251 ; the question to whether 

 the clause is applicable to slaves, 251 ; what la tb mtm 

 ing of the words "three-fifths of all other pCfMM*f 

 it is tho object of the ninth section of the first 

 article of the Constitution ? -.".J ; the Constltotlon raeof - 

 nlzes the institution In plain U-nn, 2.V2 ; a rule of Inter- 

 pretation, 253 ; words u held to service" do not Include 

 slaves, 253; slavery cannot be sanctioned or legalized 

 except by positive words, 254; argument of GranvilU 

 Sharp, 254 ; amendment agreed t 



In the House, a bill to repeal the Fugitive Stare Law 

 considered, 254 ; opinions of the framers of the Consti- 

 tution, 255; words of Washington, 255; declarations of 

 Hamilton, 255; of Fisher Ames, 256; of Judge : 

 256: the Prigg case, 256; ease of Wright ML Deacon, 

 206 ; bill passed, 257 ; passed also in the Senate, SOT. 



In the Senate, a joint resolution to amend the Consti- 

 tution considered, 257; the resolution, 257; slavery the 

 cause of our troubles, 257; something more efficient 

 must be done to get rid of slavery, 253; this is the 

 crowning act of a series of measures, 258; if the Senate 

 were to adopt this resolution, and it be ratified by three- 

 fourths of the States, it would not be binding on any State 

 whose interest was effected by it if that State protected 

 against it, 259; the Constitution a contract, 259; could 

 this Constitution have been adopted if such an amend- 

 ment had been contemplated at the time? 259; if you 

 can regulate the relation of master and slave In the 

 States, yon can regulate that of parent and child, 259; 

 provision of the Constitution for amendment, 260; this 

 is a day that I and many others have long wished for^ 

 260 ; the nation to commence a new life, 260; If we can- 

 not put away this great sin our cause is hopeless, 261 

 our home policy, our finances, our legitimate business 

 have all been ignored this session, to discuss the ftrfu* 

 of the negroes of the Southern Confederacy, 241; la 

 what condition are the Southern States to coaeider 

 amendments to the Constitution ? 261 ; whose fault is 

 it * iOl ; positive provisions by which slavery is bronghf 

 under the control of Congress, 262 ; to provide for the 

 common defence, A-c., 262 ; to raise and support annits, 

 2C2; guarantee of a republican Government to every 

 State, 262 ; such the protection thrown by the Constitu 

 tion over every person without distinction of color, MS; 

 how, then, comes any person to be held as a slave? 968; 

 nothing in the Constitution on which slavery can rest or 

 find the least support, 263 ; do you think the Soatbtm 

 people will yield if you adopt this amendment ? 264 ; 

 amend the Constitution so as to lay your hand on tha 

 property interest of Xew England, she would be in rev- 

 olution to-morrow, 264 ; if the men who are to pass this 

 amendment were interested in the property, there is not 

 one of them but would oppose it, 264 ; the power of 

 amendment as now proposed to 1-e exercised, would to- 

 vest the amending power with a faculty of destroying 

 and revolutionizing the whole Government. 261 ; resold- 

 tion passed, 265; what number of Senators Is required 

 to pass this amendment ? 265. 



In the House, the resolution considered, 265; can 

 three-fourths of the States > r.Jition of the 



other States ? 2C5 ; this is a wide departure from lu 

 spirit, 265; many objections to this amendment, 265; 

 further debate, 2C5 ; resolution passed, 2L 



In the House, a bill to aid the President In eienrtinc 

 the emancipation proclamation, offered and referred, 24*. 



la the House, a proposition to repeal the commnta- 



